There couldn't be a better time to write the final chapter in the story of the Hobson Family, who exactly twelve months ago (and for several months thereafter) were $1,000 dollars away from becoming homeless. Today, I have many of you to thank for being able to say "What a...

The last year has been one wild ride. Twelve months ago Barack Obama wasn't yet the Democratic nominee for President. Now against fairly monumental odds, he's the guy in the Oval Office. The economy continued its slippery slope, gas prices made their unpredictable gyrations, housing values plummeted and the job...

This is not the follow-up to "A Thousand Dollars Away From Homeless" I planned to write.

The follow-up to the story of Debbie Hobson and family (who in September 2008 were less than $1,000 away from eviction) that I pictured writing would convey the scintillating success of how tens...

My good friend Amy Tavio surprised me with this honest and uplifting account of her family's impromptu trip to President Barack Obama's inauguration. Once Amy and her husband Timo made their spur-of-the-moment decision to witness the swearing in of our 44th president they loaded up the kids - Bridget (12),...

Like many of you, I grew up wondering if my generation would have its Kennedy. Born in the shadow of the legend of the man, I arrived in a year when the country was still grieving JFK; still blissfully innocent of his assassination as the glancing blow against an iceberg...

It's a new year, so what better time for a new tradition? Perhaps like millions of others or as in years past, you've created one (or more) new year's resolutions without thinking twice. I encourage you to think again.

I never much liked the idea of new year's resolutions because...

To say things are different in America is perhaps the greatest understatement of the year. Things are different all right, good-different and bad-different both. The change we can believe is underway, but not without many preceding transformations which were an inevitable outcome of stagnation, ignorance and apathy. In making way...

For millions of Obama supporters it's been a long two years holding signs, hosting house events, wearing buttons, knocking on doors, and making phone calls. Through months of watching CNN and pundits weighing in on news shows, we hung in there as the country melted down around us. We first...

What a difference a month makes. In September I wrote about Debbie in A Thousand Dollars Away From Homeless, and thanks to the generosity of many of you, strangers to us both, the critical $1,000 was raised so Debbie and her family could pay their September rent in order...

What a difference a month makes. In September I wrote about Debbie in A Thousand Dollars Away From Homeless, and thanks to the generosity of many of you, strangers to us both, the critical $1,000 was raised so Debbie and her family could pay their September rent in order...